{"id":3855,"date":"2015-04-15T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:19:01","slug":"epalestine-democracy-framing-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/04\/epalestine-democracy-framing-to-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRACY: Framing to Advance, Not to Batter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/logo-1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/logo-1.gif\" class=\"wp-image-3856\" height=\"103\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democracy: A Journal of Ideas<\/p>\n<p class=\"articledate\"><span class=\"issuestamp_home\">Issue #36<\/span><span class=\"datestamp_home\">, Spring 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>American Progressives and Israel, Continued<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Issue #35 of Democracy, Matt Duss wrote a provocative essay, &#8220;American Progressives and Israel,&#8221; that reviewed two recent books on Israel. He argued that both the far right and far left had lost sight of an important group: Israeli liberals. We asked a wide range of commenters to respond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: Sam Bahour: Framing to Advance, Not to Batter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.democracyjournal.org\/36\/american-progressives-and-israel-continued.php?page=all<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy: A Journal of Ideas Issue #36, Spring 2015 American Progressives and Israel, Continued In Issue #35 of Democracy, Matt Duss wrote a provocative essay, &#8220;American Progressives and Israel,&#8221; that reviewed two recent books on Israel. He argued that both the far right and far left had lost sight of an important group: Israeli liberals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[567,568,40,569,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-american-progressives-and-israel","tag-democracy","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-matt-duss","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/5727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}